State decision on Hanson school project to come down this week

Tuesday

Mar 11, 2014 at 4:23 PMMar 11, 2014 at 4:26 PM

Local officials are waiting on a decision whether they can re-approach a partially state-funded school construction project.

Staff Reporter

HANSON – Residents and school officials should learn this week whether or not a twice-failed elementary school project will be able to move ahead to a third vote under its existing state funding mechanism.

The Massachusetts School Building Authority will send a letter to the Whitman-Hanson Regional School District informing officials of its decision this week, spokesman Dan Collins said. He said on Tuesday afternoon that he could not be more specific on the timeline and could not say what the decision would be.

The school committee asked for an extension of its funding deadline last month after voters failed for a second time to approve a $58 million project that would replace Indian Head and Maquan schools with a combined building for pre-school through grade five students.